Through using drugs no one has ever become enlightened. If people could become enlightened through using drugs, I would go and buy a few pounds now and give them to you all. This chemical has a reaction in the brain, numbing the brain. It can stir many samskaras that are deeply implanted in your minds, […]
We have been born to spread joy
We have been born to spread joy. That should be the ambition of life, and that is the spiritual ambition. All desires are binding. They take you on the wheel of birth and death all the time, over and over and over again. When a desire is refined and becomes desireless, where the desire is […]
Enjoying life in the right way is austerity
Austerity, like brahmacharya, is a word so misinterpreted. Austerity doesn’t mean that you deprive yourself. If you have a comfortable bed at home, it is not necessary to sleep on the ground. Enjoy life—but enjoy it in the right way. Enjoying life in the right way is austerity. To do unto others as you would […]
Do good, be good
I do not say, “believe.” Believe if you must, if you have a devotional temperament. If you have an intellectual temperament, inquire. And if you do not have either an intellectual temperament or a believing temperament, then just live . . . in the sense of, “Do good, be good.” There is no such thing […]
The Choiceless choice
Flowing with His choice So when it comes to choices, who chooses for you? Your ego chooses. Because the ego is patterned and according to its patterning it makes its choice. You are fond of mountains or someone is fond of the sea. Why? Because you are used to mountains, so you’re attracted to the […]
No doctor can cure your ailment
In any good deed or bad deed the same energy is used—it is a matter of direction. If a person embarks on a destructive course, we say that Satan has possessed him, and if he goes on a constructive course we say that he is goodly and godly. There’s no goodly-and-godliness here: he did a […]
Add a bit of spice to your food!
Life is meaningful and meaningless at the same time No, it’s alright for now. Life is both meaningful and also meaningless. It depends on how you look at life. If you find life to be meaningless, then it will become meaningless. But if you find life to be meaningful, then you will find ways and […]
Joyful Meaning
Adding meaning to life Life is both meaningful and also meaningless. It depends on how you look at life. If you find life to be meaningless, then it will become meaningless. But if you find life to be meaningful, then you will find ways and means by you viewing your life to be meaningful. What […]